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This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy of activated recombinant human factor VIIgiven in conjunction with standard therapy in patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery following traumatic pelvic or pelvic and acetabular fractures.

90 mcg/kg body weight administered intravenously as a slow, bolus injection after the patients had been anaesthetised and immediately before the first skin incision. A second dose was given if an intraoperative haemoglobin was less than 8.0 g/dl after salvaged red cells (RBC) had been re-transfused

Placebo Comparator: Placebo

Drug: placebo

Administered intravenously as a slow, bolus injection after the patients had been anaesthetised and immediately before the first skin incision. A second dose was given if an intraoperative haemoglobin was less than 8.0 g/dl after salvaged red cells (RBC) had been re-transfused

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Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Injury due to a blunt or penetrating trauma causing pelvic or pelvic and acetabular fracture amenable to surgical reconstruction

Scheduled for a semi-elective reconstruction surgery for fracture(s) of pelvis or pelvis and acetabulum, which was expected to be a "large" complex procedure with the potential of blood loss more than 50% of circulating blood volume